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J i | I I I ! SUN LADY BY A LENGTH . — • — Carries Mrs. Farrars Colors to Success in Kirkfield Handicap. — ♦ Double Victory for Mrs. B. A. LlTingsion, Sentinel Star and Prince of Power Winning for Her. TORONTO, Ont.. June 2. — Mondays rainstorm was very slightly felt at Thorncliffe and the rainfall was small, doing nothing more than iay the dust for todays racing. 1 ne track was resurfaced tnis spring and was badly in need of a good wetting and conditions were better than on opening day. Real sizzling midsummer heat was the order of the day and a crowd just under that of Monday turned out for the afternoons sport. The b ggest surprise of the day came with the running of the Kirkfield Handicap, the richest offering of the day, having ,500 added, when Sun Bady, carrying the colors of Mrs. Frank Farrar, ran over the pacemakers in the stretch to win by a length from Amor Patriae and Easter Bells. Mr. Iepp was an odds-on choice in the race, but was off last and did not show the speed of his other starts in these parts. Sun Bady hung up a new track record of 1 :06 for tne five and a half furlongs, clipping three-fifths of a second off the record held jointly by Polythia. Polar Cub and Ring. From a good start Amor Patriae jumped right in the lead followed by Easter Bells and Sun Bady, and that order was maintained until the trio reached the stretch, where Sun Bady came with a rush and carried the pacemakers off their feet to win by a length going away. Venizelos was made an odds-on choice in the opening race, a dash of three-quarters, and the son of Plaudit did not give his supporters a moments anxiety. He was away in front and stayed there until the finish without a real challenge after Pyx was fought off in the early running. There was nothing to the second race under claiming conditions, at a mile and an eighth, except the public choice, Frank Fogarty, which was the easiest kind of winner over W. M. Cains Arragosa. Frank Fogarty lost Continued on twentieth pace. SUN LADY BY A LENGTH Continued from first nuce i no time in getting to the front and the farther he went the bigger his margin, although Arragosa moved up a trifle at the stretch turn but the winner went on and pulled away again without effort. When Sentinel Star won the third race, a dash of four and a half furlongs for maiden two-year-olds, it marked the first victory of the year in Canada for a field horse. Curiously enough, the second was also a field horse and the mutuels paid almost as much for place as for to win. Julia O. was an easy third. The winner is owned by Mrs. L A. Livingston and is by Kingship — My Star, and he ran the distance in :55. The silks of Mrs. L. A. Livingston, of the Pontiac Farm, scored a double when Prince of Power proved an easy winner of the third race, over H. G. Bedwells Royal Pearl and W. Meins Leading Light. The diminutive J. McTague was astride Prince of Power and also Sentinel Star in the previous, which won for Mrs. Livingston, Prince of Power lost no time getting to the front. Without being pressed at any stage of the mile journey in the Cambridge Purse, fifth on the card, Ceylon Prince was an easy winner for R. F. Carman over Roseate II. and Rejection. Ceylon Prince was another odds-on choice that gave his supporters no cause for alarm, as he quickly went to the front and was never really challenged, and ran the mile in 1 :39%. Roseate II. was back of j Deronda and Polly Wale in the early run-I ning, but took up the running after that pair quit and was an easy second. Rejection was a handy third. Glenville declined in the last race on the program, a claiming affair at a mile and a j sixteenth, the winner turning up in Quotation, which had a length lead at the finish over E. R. TufTs Villager, while White Marsh was third in the run down the stretch. White Marsh worked his way up from a slow beginning and was going fast at the finish.
